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Re: E text editor version 2 released

#41
Having been a E-Texteditor user since 2008 I was quite excited about this released - but having a look over it, there is nothing in this new release that makes it worth me paying again for the update.

I'll stick to the 1.x branch, and while it may cost more I'm seriously considering Sublime as a purchase.

Re: E text editor version 2 released

#42
post #26

E was my editor of choice when Windows was my primary OS and a very nice editor it was. It's a shame there's no Linux version :(

The author open sourced most of the code. You can find it here http://github.com/etexteditor/e you should be able to compile a version that works with linux.

Oh wow, thanks, wasn't aware of this. You say "most of the code" - do you know what's missing?

Re: E text editor version 2 released

#43
post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In other news, Chrome, a Firefox clone, has beaten Firefox to version 4, and also to version 5... ... Or maybe, just maybe, comparing version numbers across different programs is completely useless.

Well, E was inspired heavily by Textmate and IIRC the author of Textmate was involved a bit: http://e-texteditor.com/blog/2006/11

Sure. My point wasn't to say that E-text wasn't inspired by Textmate: it even states so clearly on its page.

Simply that comparing version numbers is pointless: call it E-text 2010 for all I care, and it won't be better or worse for it.

Re: E text editor version 2 released

#44
post #14
post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In other news, Chrome, a Firefox clone, has beaten Firefox to version 4, and also to version 5... ... Or maybe, just maybe, comparing version numbers across different programs is completely useless.

Better not compare releases and new features either ... like it or not TextMate is stagnant.

If you want to compare features, then please do. I love TextMate but it's a tool, and I'm happy to drop it if something better comes along (which might be TM2 or not, don't care).

But discussing/comparing features is a sensible topic. Saying that E-text beat Textmate to version 2 it useless. First, version number has nothing to do with features (as I was pointing out in the browser world). Second you can say E-text 2 is better than the latest Textmate, but nothing more: nobody apart from the author (and his collaborator) knows what's TM2 gonna be like.

Re: E text editor version 2 released

#46

I wonder how the "open company" thing turned out: http://e-texteditor.com/blog/2009/opencompany http://e-texteditor.com/wiki/index.php/OpenCompany since it looks like this new version is closed again.

According to the forum the source should be up in a weeks time.

Re: E text editor version 2 released

#47

Maybe I'm missing something -- I write PHP files with HTML sections - and often CSS sections in HTML. I can't figure out how to get true multi-language highlighting working. Does anyone else have this working? If I choose HTML as the document type, I can style some PHP elements - but CSS in particular is just standard foreground-on-background... Otherwise, this looks like a replacement for PSPad, which is my current…

Well, further research and messing around: It looks like multiple-language highlighting (a single document with HTML, PHP, and CSS) is not really available.

I looked in the forum to try and see if I could figure out how to maybe add it myself - but I see a whole lot of posts looking for help with no answers - and I didn't find anything that helps me figure out how to get started maybe adding this functionality.

I poked around in the various files included with the program, and I don't see where the definitions are... Meh.

It's a pity - this looks fantastic, but it won't work for me.

Re: E text editor version 2 released

#48
I'm an avid textmate user on my macbook. So, I decided to give e a shot on my desktop a few months ago. Initially I thought it was pretty cool that i could use all my bundles. but as I used it more I realized that there were too many quirks and missing features (like when you select a word it highlights all occurrences, auto brace completion, split view, etc)

I switched back to notepad++.

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